tedd wrote: > At 3:17 PM +0100 2/23/10, Daniel Egeberg wrote: >> 2010/2/23 Dasn <dasn@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Could you tell me how to retrieve the 'return type'? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dasn >> >> That's not possible. Consider this function: >> >> function foo() >> { >> switch (rand(0, 1)) { >> case 0: return 42; >> case 1: return 'bar'; >> } >> } >> >> What should the return type be? >> >> -- >> Daniel Egeberg > > > It can be anything you want to test for -- check out: > > is_int(); > is_nan(); > is_float(); > is_long(); > is_string(); > > IOW, is_whatever(); > > Cheers, > > tedd > As PHP is loosely typed, the only real way around this is to specify a return type in a PHPDoc block, then parse that using reflection to get the @return parameter. another option is to use something like haXe which is an ECMA style typed language that compiles to multiple targets, one of which is PHP. Regards! Nathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php